Improvement in paint-brushes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

i SYRANUS STANDISH, OF EUREKA, NEVADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINT-BRUSHES.

I Specification forming part of Iietters Patent No. 140,314, dated June 24, 1873; appliration filed l May 26, 1era.

Be it known that I, SYRANUS STANnIsH, shell, after which the pin a2 is inserted in the of Eureka., in the county ofEureka and State transverse hole at the lower end of handle. of Nevada, have invented a new and useful The handle A is then screwed up into the nut Improvement in Paint-Brushes; and I do d, until the cone B holds the bristles tightly hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, to the shell. and exact description of the same, reference When the bristles have become worn at the being had to the accompanying drawing, formlower end the handle A may be screwed downing part of this specification, in which the Figwardly into the nut d, and thus cause the cone ure represents a longitudinal centra-l section. to loosen its bite upon the bristles. The lat- 'lhe invention relates to paint and other ter are then' drawn down and adjusted, when brushes, and consists in a novel mode of conthe handle is again screwed up, the cone B structing and combining the handle, bristle, made to bind on the bristles, and the repair compressor, and shell, so that the bristles may of brush has been completed. be adjusted when worn, utilized almost en- This construction increases greatly the durtirely, and then replaced with new bristles, ability of the brushes, while it enables any all with but little trouble and by almost any one to utilize the greater part of the bristles one. or to substitute new ones. y I In the drawing, A represents the handle of Having thus described my invention, what f a brushprovided with the thread a, and I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lett .smooth end al, transversely perforated to reters Patent, is-

} ceiveapin, a2. Bisabristle-compressor,con- A brush-handle, having thc screw a and Y To all lwhom tmay concern: of the bristles, and up to the shoulder d of ical on the outside, but perforated cylindricround smooth end al the compressor 1?,con-` ally through the center. C are the bristles` ical on the outside, perforated cylindrically,

,' and D is the shell or casing which is threaded and held on the part a1 of handle, and the f on the inside of the thickened part to form a shell D having nut d and shoulder df, connut, d. structed and applied together to hold the bris- The application is as follows: The handle tles C, in the manner described. A is first passed upwardly through the shell SYRANUS, STANDISH. t D, and screwed slightly thereinto at d; the

bristles are then forced up against shoulder d', Witnesses and slipped, with the small end uppermost, J. H. ALDERSON,

over the smooth end al of handle, in the midst CEAS. G. HUBBARD. 

